Kali Linux - Displays -> Could not get screen information

Question

I just recently installed Kali Linux about a week ago to dual boot alongside my Linux Mint. I have been using Linux Mint for about two years now, but I am new to Kali Linux.

The first day I played around in the Kali Linux Settings and changed the orientation of my monitors because when I first booted in the orientation had my secondary monitor on the right side BUT I have two monitors: my main monitor is in front of me and my secondary is to my left. So I opened the Display settings and switched them around no problem.

After installing nvidia drivers following the guide from:

http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux

after the reboot, my monitors swapped back to having my secondary monitor on the right of me. When I opened the display settings to change this back it displays the following:

"Could not get screen information"

Can anyone help me to get this working again?

Solution

It works now, I heard there was an update on September 13th, 2016 (https:// www.kali.org/news/azure-marketplace-weekly-iso-builds/) for Kali Linux so I just ran:

apt-get dist-upgrade

it installed a lot of new updates, I followed it by:

apt-get update

just for good measure, and after a system reboot everything was working fine again; display settings is able to get screen information on connected monitors now.

Says it's resolved here as well: https:// bugs.kali.org/my_view_page.php

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Comments

[gogators]

Can you just swap the cables?

[DavidPostill]

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